Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-18
THE DIME CRAZE.
SAVING ALL THE TEN-CRNT PIECES GOT IN
CHANGE.
Interesting Experiences Of Those Who Have Tried 1t
One Young Man Who Got a Wife
By the Scheme.
s.. Louis Republican.

Two young gentlemen stepped into q
cigar store yesterday, and n Of them
bought and paid for two cigars. The
cigars cost ten cents each, and the man
who sold them handed back, in change for
the silver dollar that had been rendered
him, eighty cents in ten-cent pieces. There
upon one of the yonng men laughed vociter-
ously, and the other, who had bought
the cigars, pocketed the eight
dimes, with an expression approaching
chargin, and said: "Just my luck, by
George. However," said he, after light
ing his cigar, eff there's any more spend
ing to be done, old fellow, you've got it to
do, for Pm broke"
When the young man left the store the
cigar man turned to a Republican reporter
who had witnessed the transaction and
said:
"Do you know what that means?"
"No."
sit means that the young fellow who
bought the cigars is at the same time
eighty cents ahead and eighty cents behind.
He is ahead in money that he will save
and behind in money that he probably
wanted to use to-day"
II don't understand you"
"Well, the young man has simply caught
the dime-savlng craze"
"And what is the dime-saving craze?"
at is something that may not be ex-
actly new, but is new for all that / know
to the contrary. The scheme is never to
spend a dime. 1t was probably devised
for the benefit of thrittless people who are
not able 70 seve their money in a regular
way, and FOR a plan Of saving it is one OF
the best l ever heard OF. Hun
dreds OF young fellows have caught it,
and limit their wants accordingly. My
business suffers from the practice to some
extent, but not a great deal. In fact, |
an somewhat of a dime-saver myself, and
l get new customers by explaining the
plan to them and getting them to adopt it.
They come in to see me about it nearly
every day, and tell me how well they are
doing"
Suppose You give me the plan more in
detail"
"Well, you make up your mind to keep
every dime that comes into your posses
sion. You are never to part with a ten
cent piece under any circumstances. When
ever you receive a dime in change put it
away, and when you get home place it in a
box or receptacle for safe-keeping. The
more dimes you get in change the greater
your savings will be. You are to make
any sacrifice rather than to part with one
dime. If you have nothing but dimes in
your pocket when you want a cigar, go
without the cigar. If you want lunch and
have nothing but dimes, 20 without lunch.
If You have only q dime in your pocket
and want to ride home On u horse Car,
brace up and walk. Save your dimes"
well, what will be the result OF it?"
at will surprise you. If you are a free
Spender your savings will assume large
proportions. You will be surprised when
you adopt the plan to see the number Of
dimes in circulation.
Now, when you come TO think of it q
dime is no small sum. If you save all the
dimes You get in change you save nearly
one-half OF your small expenditures. If
you are not free with your money, your
savings will, of course o amount to a
great deal; still they will come to an inter-
esting sum in time. The plan seems to be,
az | said, devised to make people who
spend money freely ave q part of their
pocket money. 1t is 4 good thing, too, in
the way Of teaching a man frugality and
thrift. | believe that any one who learns
TO save in small things will not be long in
learning to save in large things. Try the
thing q while and see what comes Of it,"
Inquiries among personal friends served
10 show the reporter that the dime-saving
plan had become to many Of them a fasCi-
mating habit.
al took up the scheme last spring."
said a young man, ''at the solicitation Of
my wife. We had been figuring up my
expenses-that is, my personal expenses
aud she declared me frightfully extrava-
CAN'T. I. insisted that the expenses could
not we'll be curtailed. She advised the
practice ofa little self-denial in the matter
of cigars, shines and all other little ex-
peusls that eat up o dollar 80 quickly. l
said il would be impossible for me to fore.
20 these little luxuries, rs they had SO
grown upon me; and she, while asseverat-
iug she did not want me to revolutiOnize
things, maintained that a little denial OF
these pleasures, a moderation Of them, in
tact, would improve Inc financially and
physically.
ut was about that time I heard of the
dime scheme, and l became an advocate
and deyotee OF il at once. Well, you
wouldn't believe how ] proited by it. 1t
became q matter of the greatest interes TO
ne; In the first place TO secure change that
had no dimesin it. In the second place il
became interesting and amusing to deny
myself certain thingsI otherwise would
buy without any thought OF saving.
Everything | denied myself really became
. source of pleasure to me, and l would
not only enjoy the saving Of the money
that would otherwise hare been spent, but
l eojoyed telling my wife about il. Fur
thermore, l felt the keenest interest in the
pile of dimes that Was constantly grow
lug. | felt free 70 spend in some things
because / knew l would get my return in
dimes. The desirs to add to my pile, how
ever, kept nae from buying many and
many ? thing ! should have been eager
before to secure.
~ know you will refuse to believe me,
now, when l tell you that in six months /
have saved nearly 500. It's a solemn
fact, though, and by Christmas l think
shall have saved about $3.50. My salary
is $500 q year, and bas been for two years
past, and I am really ashamed to say that
never until l adopted this dime-saving
method have l saved any money. My wife
and l sre delighted with it, and / think
see my way to saving 81, OO0 next year. l
have determined to buy a house and lot
with dimes, and to become a wholesome
example to my boy, if l should live until
he becomes a yourg man, and am confident
that l shall never stop aGiuriDg him TO
save his dimes.
Nov, said the gentleman's wife, 'you
need not think that he is the only member
of the firm that does any 6ime-saving. II
you knew what a walker I had become
through my unwillingness to part with a
dime, you would open your eyes in won
der. Often and often / have walked home
from Fourth street, because of having 10
other money than dimes have saved
nearly all my chnrch money. Inever buy
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